Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vi
4. INTRODUCTION Science Fiction Film in the Age of Neoliberalism 1
5. CHAPTER 1 Between Friends and Enemies: Ridley Scott’s Alien 32
6. CHAPTER 2 Monopolizing the Future: Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report and Schmitt’s Exception 53
7. CHAPTER 3 The Anomalous World: Elysium and the Invention of the Med-Bay Machine 72
8. CHAPTER 4 Blade Runner and the Right to Life 91
9. CHAPTER 5 Terminating the State of Exception: Oblivion and the Problem of Exceptional Being 105
10. CHAPTER 6 Escaping the Production of Bare Life: Blade Runner 2049 and the Miracle of Birth 126
11. Conclusion 145
12. Works Cited 148
13. Index 157